The release date for the English version of 'The Night Shift' by
Alex Finlay is Nov 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The gripping new book by the author of the critically acclaimed thriller Every Last Fear explores the connections between two small-town murders that occurred fifteen years apart.
"Tragedy was expected to befall the night." One of the most eagerly awaited thrillers of 2022 gets underway with this.
It's 1999 New Year's Eve. It is predicted that Y2K would end in pandemonium, with international markets crashing, aircraft tumbling from the sky, and elevators plummeting to the ground. An end to the digital age. Nothing like that occurs. However, four adolescent females who are working the night shift at a Linden, New Jersey Blockbuster Video are assaulted. Only one makes it out alive. Authorities promptly recognize a suspect who runs away and is never seen again.
Fifteen years later, in the same town, four teenage employees working late at an ice cream store are attacked, and again only one makes it out alive.
"Goodnight, pretty girl" is all that the attacker said before killing them, according to the two victims who are still alive.
Three lives converge in the aftermath: the brother of the initial suspect, who believes the police are at fault; the survivor of the Blockbuster massacre, who is compelled to relive her sorrow; and the FBI agent, who is driven to solve both crimes. All three lives will be irrevocably altered as they go toward the truth, and not everyone will escape unscathed.
Alex Finlay establishes himself as one of the new top voices in the thriller genre with The Night Shift, a twisty, tragic, and redemptive tale about the aftermath of tragedy and how the shattered may rise again.